1. Mac File Compare Utility
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It lets you compare two files to a base file, and merge, split and join entire folders, files or just selected parts of text. Kdiff3 integrates well with KDE (supports Dolphin service menus), but it will work on all Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OS X. The “Settings - Configure Kdiff3” dialog lets you set parameters for file. By default, XML files are compared using a text comparison. To compare XML files with a hierarchical comparison instead, see Compare XML Files. Merge Text Files. When comparing text files, you can merge changes from one file to the other. Merging changes can be useful when resolving conflicts between different versions of files. Spot the differences, merge in seconds. Kaleidoscope is the world’s most powerful file comparison app. Compare different text files, images, and folders on your Mac and iPad. Review and merge changes in a matter of seconds (merging available only on the Mac). Get Kaleidoscope. To compare two text files, you can type the paths of two files into the entry fields or use the buttons on the right-hand end of the entry fields to choose files to compare. The Browse button opens a file-browsing sheet and the Show history button displays a list of files that you have recently compared.

VS Code has a very powerful diff tool. This quick post is going to teach you how to perform diffs (compare files) in VS Code.

Mac File Compare Utility

There's two primary types of diffs you can do with VS Code.

1. Compare two files in your project
2. Compare git file versions

Diff from Explorer Panel

This is the quickest, easiest way to bring up the diff panels.

1. Right click the first file and 'Select for Compare'

2. Right click on the second file and 'Compare with Selected'

3. You should see the diff panel appear once you've completed these steps:

Note: you can also CTRL-select both files, right click on one, and select 'Compare Selected' to achieve the same thing:

Diff from command line

This is convenient if you want to build up muscle memory of typing out the commands into the terminal. Here's how to do it.

Paste this command into the command line with your file names.

Executing this command should bring up the diff panel, just like it did from the explorer window.

Git diff in from the Activity Bar

If you would like to compare your local file changes with the latest git version of a file, click the git icon in the activity bar, then select the file that you would like to compare.

Note: you can also edit files from within the diff panels! VS Code is awesome.

I hope this helped you! Diffing in VS Code is very useful for quickly seeing changes between two files. It also helps to remind yourself of the changes you've made from the master version of a file on git once in a while. VSCode diffs are a great thing to add to your developer toolbox.

Thanks for this, however, Word will show the differences in 'compare to' functions; however, side-by-side comparison of Excel must be done by reading & comparing cell information, correct?. I've not tried comparing Excel docs other than laboriously reading & comparing text in respective spreadsheet cells.

Even if very similar, one must still labor through the info by reading?

If cell info was text (no formula, math, graphics, etc) entered into Excel cells (or cut/pasted from source text), could one cut and past info from the cell(s), paste into Word & compare in that way?

If the text in same cells per spreadsheet also had hyperlinks and if the comparison worked by cut/pasting into Word cells, I assume that would not disrupt the universe?

rkaufmann87; to resize the window, one has to tweak endlessly with the borders, correct? Is there a function in Excel for Macs that will automatically size the two documents w/o having to spend the rest of one's life re-sizing?

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Jun 28, 2015 1:16 AM